$0.05 is the rate we pay in BC at night. I was still debating whether to add solar or not, I guess your post answers the question. Until we can get to $0.01 there is no point in solar in BC at least.
$0.05 is the rate we pay in BC at night. I was still debating whether to add solar or not, I guess your post answers the question. Until we can get to $0.01 there is no point in solar in BC at least.
From an efficiency standpoint, we should probably be building grid-scale solar in Alberta and pumped storage in BC. There's more sunshine on the east side of the Rockies.
As a resident of Alberta, I pay $0.205/kWh for energy and delivery, which I largely attribute to bad decisions made by our provincial government. Even still, my 10 kW rooftop solar install is barely financially viable at those rates.
With that said, it would help if the Canadian government didn't have enormous tariffs on solar panels. Canada levies taxes such that solar panels here cost nearly triple what they cost elsewhere.